Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-01
A NEW ERA.

w 'sFor ages past, yea from time immemorial, said venerable gray-headed citizen of Wa terside yesterday, ''we have hoped and hoped in vain for the day when Tomlinson bridge would be no longer a toll bridge. Now the happy event has come at last and and all my people rejoice, down to the wee little toddlers themselves, for it is indeed Q | happy thought to us all that this bar to the prosperity of Waterside is removed. And for that matter the toll bridge was bar to the prosperity of the whole Annex, especially that portion adjoining and south of Forbes I avenue even as far as the old lighthouse it. ! self. am glad for New Haven that it has l risen and shaken of this old barnacle from | it's ship of state, for although barnacles are good in their place and the old toll bridge was interesting as 8 relic of a | former generation, still people in this age of | progress and improvements, in this age of l telephones and electric lights, cannot live on
 barnacles nor upon old relics of any kind A | place where relics become valuable is in the | Historical society's splendid collections. | That is hive of relics that are indeed valu- able and highly instructive to all who read transfer piece of the old bridge or some other relic of it to the old State | House. But undoubtedly the finest memento I of the old bridge would be a copy of the fine | etching representing the old bridge which is ! possessed in many New Haven families. So | we rejoice firstly that in place of the old l tumble down, but nevertheless picturesque ruin. the old toll bridge, we have the hand some iron bridge which has recently taken | its place and which once spannsd the Housa- 1 tonic river; and we rejoice secondly and with great enthusiasm because we are now to have free bridge. Ask any old resident or young resident if he is glad that we have l now free bridge. Ask any young man or maiden and we vote yes unanimously on that subject. And by the way we are going to celebrate this release from bondage, and we will build bonfire on old Beacon Hill or some other eminent site which will be seen clear across old Long Island Sound"
 Waterside is the pretty little nest of resi- dences on Forbes avenue just across Tomlin- son bridge. It has remained just about as it is now for fifty years. Half century is good while for standstil1 in 8 suburb of New Haven so near to the city as Waterside is. The distance from the populous city with its wharves and big shops and big steamboats and freight houses to the village of Waterside with it's quietude, it's old elms and big willows, it's old houses and quiet streets, is but five minutes walk. There has been but little change in Waterside, a stated, in forty or fifty years. But in other
 
 the city there has been much improvement in the last ten years and more are coming and the free bridge will give progress boost Mrs. Bland's new house at Waterside, is the first of ac count built there in years. It is nice house just over the bridge, and is quite an addition to the village. On Townsend avenue many houses have been erected in the last ten years and building has been quite lively. MT. Edward Hemingway, whose barn was burned few weeks ago has fine new barn nearly completed in it's place. Just above his place his brother William built two years ago a nice house and has lately been repainting and otherwise adding to its tasty appear ance. He is well known as prominent and influential Republican. The handsome sum- mer residence of MT. H. H. Benedict, the wholesale coal merchant, of New Haven. firm of Benedict, Pardee & Co.,, was erected within the last ten years. MT. Benedict is now with his wife at the Bermuda Islands recruiting his health and with good results. His summer residence occupies one of the finest sites on the hillside and commands fine view of the harbcr and city. Other houses erected within the period named are those of Michael Grady, fore handed citizen, active and enterprising; Mr. Moran and Mir. Began, each of whom occu py their respective houses. MT. Woodward has built one that he rents. MT. Rowe of Granniss & Rowe, the grocers at Waterside,
  Brown, one of New Haven's Selectmen, has built one which he rents. Lawyer Dwight Futile one which is rented. MT. Peck one.
 Then the little chapel on Townsend avenue has just been changed from union chapel into Methodist chapel and 8 Methodist pas tor is stationed over it.
 Congressman Mitchell has also erected @ very neat house for his coaehman on his grounds. By the way, Congressman Nit chell's son, aged about fifteen, is at school at ! fine educational institution at Garden City, Long Island, the late A. T. Stewards city, and most favorable reports are receiv- ed of his progress in his studies. He is a very bright and promising youth.
 Coming down to the Cove on Townsend avenue we see many and notable improve ments. This place has taken great jump forward in the last ten years and in the last year also.- The Parker estate land sold last summer is rapidly being i'm vile, who bought the Parker residence has greatly improved and beauti- fled it. He occupied it last summer. MT. George Chamberlin of the Chamberlins, fur niture dealers of New Haven, last summer built beautiful little cottage on the avenue il the Cove. George Thompson, formerly 8 State street merchant, has built nice cot tage on land bought by him which belonged to the Parker estate. George E. Smith, who came from Norwalk, and served with much credit in the war of the rebellion, has built nice house in which he resides. The son-in- law of MT. George Porter who lives on Town send avenue, also the Thompsons, sons of the late Captain Samuel Thompson of East Haven, have built four or five cottages in the Cove lately. Theodore and Lyman of the sons, have business situa- tions in New Haven, and Asahel (who form erly kept the postofice) and Samuel are en- gagged in the oyster business. The two former occupy two of the houses; the others are rented Several more houses and cot tages will be built next spring at the Cove. The corner house at the turn of the road from Townsend avenue as you go to the yore by the widow of Admiral Gregory. The lady is sister of Mrs. Ingersoll, wife of Governor Ingersol.
 Also Selectman Brown of New Haven will, it is said, during 1887 erect fine residence on his land which he bought of United States Marshal Carll on the hill overlooking Forbes avenue, The bluff looms up over the road above the old watering trough, which every body has seen when driving to East Haven and to Four Corners. MT. Brown has already his barn on the hill.
 Alfred Hughes of Forbes avenue has the past year greatly improved his residence, at an expense of several thousand dollars.
 So that from the above it will be seen thai the Annex part of the town of New Haven is rapidly improving and that it's grand list is increasing in importance, especially the southern or Cove part, and now that there is to be free bridge the Waterside part, already contiguous to the city, is bound to improve rapidly.
 In this Annex section and from near it it is interesting to note there is sent great quantity of milk to New Haven, and Messrs. Edward J. Upson, William Woodward, Ed ward Woodward, Collis Granniss, Alfred Hughes and Samuel Forbes are prominently engaged in supplying the lacteal fluid to New Haven. Each of these is 8 very substantial citizen and a man of property and what is termed "wen fxed' and com fortably situated in life. Each of them is the owner of fine herd of COWS, each herd of which will compare fsvorably with those of any other farmer in the Nutmeg State. Hon. Asa L. Fabrique is another substantial citizen who does a large business in the same line, and all are men of whom it may be said that they are good examples of the sterling men raised in New England towns
 At the City Mission.
 The pastor of the First Presbyterian